http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1371919/Teenager-plunges-death-rock-concert-gets-like-footballer-yells-hike-crashing-window.html

So earlier this week a local Picksburgh kid decided to get into a three-point stance, yell "hike", and then proceeded to plunge head first out a glass window, plunging 40 feet to his death.  Earlier at the Furthur concert (various alumni of the Greatful Dead), he was seen running up and down the non-operating escalators.  Guy went to the event with his Dad.  Various observers said that he was "out of it"...

The local news articles have noted that he dropped out of Slippery Rock College back in December, but they do not mention that in that same month he was cited for underage drinking by the local cops, or that he had to leave his prior high school for fighting.  Nope... this is certainly an unexplainable event.

My opinion?  Society is glossing over the fact that this kid had a substance abuse problem and perhaps some other instabilities.  Now that he is dead, it is considered poor form to point this out.  I say it should all be pointed out... Let people see the truth and learn from it...

Kids need to learn what dope and excessive booze (In this particular case he musta done some weird drugs) can do to you, or we'll see this over and over. It is this big joke that Greatful Dead (and now Furthur) concerts are filled with drug abusers.  Let's call a spade a spade... this nonsense just resulted in a kid "joining the fun" and ending up dead...  He bears the responsibility for his behavior, but society does not help things when concert drug abuse is treated like a joke.

Drugs suck, folks... We learn this lesson again...  >:(

Recently it seems that our culture has begun accepting drug use as if it was legal and not harmful to your health. A lot of teens are using drugs and think drugs should become legal?! Did everyone forget what they were taught in health class or am I the only one who remembers?

It seems a lot of people are using drugs as a way to go. :(

I think it's spelled "Grateful," dude!
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Anyway, I didn't need any Nancy Reagan "Just Say No."  I was coming of using age when Jerry Garcia was coming out of a diabetic coma.  The guy always looked like death run over to me.  I mean, I smoked my share of grass, but I never wanted to be one of those idiotic stoner dudes  who did so much acid they couldn't see straight and played hackey sack listlessly on the quad!
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40 feet. ouch!

Recently it seems that our culture has begun accepting drug use as if it was legal and not harmful to your health. A lot of teens are using drugs and think drugs should become legal?! Did everyone forget what they were taught in health class or am I the only one who remembers?


Not to turn this into a political thing but there is overwhelming evidence that weed isn't that harmful.

Hard drugs are definitely dangerous and should be kept illegal though.

It might also be stated that many people with mental issues self-medicate.  It is also worth noting that many drugs bring to the forefront, an underlying psychosis - a la Syd Barrett.  :(

Not to turn this into a political thing but there is overwhelming evidence that weed isn't that harmful.

Hard drugs are definitely dangerous and should be kept illegal though.


Smoke inhalation is always carcinogenic, but marijuana is much less toxic than tobacco, especially commercial tobacco cigarettes.  Pot can be demotivating, enhance paranoia, and promote other decompensating behavior; however, it depends on the individual using it.

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
  - Albert Einstein.

Alcohol?  Nicotine?  Pshaw.  40-foot drop?  Try 24 floors.  Back in 1996, this 39-year old lawyer earned himself a Darwin Award by doing the same thing under the influence of nothing other than a desire to show off to his younger cow orkers.  

Don't worry about the booze, the nicotine, or even the pot or the crack.  Testosterone and stupidity, there's the real killer cocktail.